If music was a person

Grab my heart while it's beating

Feel each beat

Echo in your palm

And resonate throughout my body

Steadily and loudly

While you slowly tug at it

Trying to rip it from its cage of ribs

Trying to take it out of the safe nest

it has created in my lungs and veins

Let the warmth of your hand

Only fill me up

While you fail to take my heart

And I lay there,

Trying to give it to you

Because it’s just so warm

And the pressure feels so safe, so nice

Every time, I am astounded

-Katrine Novichkov